...It has been said that the average American child will devote countless hours at home to homework and all of its components throughout the entirety of their high school career. Schools across America have differing views on the common practice of assigning extra work outside of the classroom. Some schools rally behind the assignment of the work by making claims that homework reinforces the lessons taught in class. Other schools want to do away with homework entirely, claiming that it takes away free time from children and does little when it comes to improvement. Some schools, however, have no definite stance on their take with homework; they are neither in favor nor against it and leave the assignment of work up to the discretion of the teacher....
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... Class #9–Mon. 2/24/14 I.) Logistics - Return and discuss homework problems 12-14; notes below. Collect problems 15-16. - Final exam time for our class: Wednesday 5/7, 3:30 – 5:30 PM, Gerber 103. - Review schedule for upcoming two weeks: 10Weds. 2/26 | Classification and Regression TreesProject 1 dueTake home part of Exam #1 assigned | Text Chapter 9 | 11Mon. 3/3 | Finish Chapter 9Catch up/review/special topics/Visualization tools | - | 12Weds. 3/5 | EXAM #1In class portion and take home due | - | - A note on ground rules for the in-class exam: Each student may bring one 8.5” by 11” review sheet to the exam with them; OK to write on both sides. The sheet will be turned in with the exam. No electronic devices of any kind except for a calculator that can do simple arithmetic. It’s OK to use a hand-held device (not a laptop) as a calculator as long as it is used only for that purpose. If students don’t have a calculator, Prof. Cleary will have a couple on hand, or students may use the podium computer to do calculations only in Excel. Any connection to the internet or communication to others (texting, etc.) during the exam will be considered an academic integrity violation. - Today’s topics: Finish Chapter 8 on the naïve Bayes estimator and review the Chi-Squared test of independence. II.) Comments on homework problems 12-14. Problem 12.) While we reviewed this last class, enough people missed it on problem...
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...Mallorcha, Acrh Emmanuel C. Miralles, Robbie T. Morico, Justine Mae V. Obiedo, Diamond Joseph Sampilo, Nikko J Submitted To: Engr. Gil Delas Alas Jr. Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 2 A. Background 2 B. Problem 2 C. Objective 3 CHAPTER 2: DATA ANALYSIS 3 A. In what aspect does computer help you? 4 B. For what purposes do you connect to internet? 4 C. Which of the following settings do you most frequently use a computer to access the Internet? 5 CHAPTER 3: OBSERVATION AND CONCLUSION 6 A. OBSERVATION 6 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION A. Background For billions of people around the world, the Internet has become an essential component of their everyday social and business lives. And though they seldom give it a moment’s thought, the search engines that help them navigate through the plethora of pages, images, video clips, and audio recordings found on the World Wide Web have also become essential. Search technology—shortened simply to “search” in the IT world and referred to as such in the rest of this report—is only two decades old, but it is a cornerstone of the Internet economy. B. Problem The Problem is that if using computer becomes too much there is a big possibility that they lose interest in studying and just surf the internet every day, check for notification, chats and friend request on Facebook, look for funny and inspiring tweets on twitter and play online games. If that happens the study habit of the student will...
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...Fundamentals Spring 2012 Syllabus & Schedule as of January 3, 2012 Professor: Dennis Anderson Office: Smith 402 Email: danderson@bentley.edu Office Phone: 781 891 2238 Class Times: Section 100: Monday, 7:30 - 9:50 pm Office Hours: For quick/easy questions, send me an email. For tough questions, career advice and other matters, face to face is better, and I’m happy to meet with you by appointment. Description: GS601 provides an enterprise-wide perspective on the management of information technologies (IT), software applications and the operational processes they support, and the data and knowledge that inform business processes and decisions. The course focuses on how IT professionals and non-technical managers work together to ensure that applications and data are aligned with organizational strategy and business processes. The cases and readings examine how companies in various industries use IT to serve customers well, manage operations efficiently, coordinate with business partners, and make better business decisions. A key theme -- IT as a double-edged sword -- reflects a central challenge: how to maximize the strategic benefits of investments in hardware and software, while minimizing accompanying technical and business risks. The course places equal weight on technical and managerial skills. Our primary objective is to help students prepare to be effective contributors to IT initiatives in partnership with IT professionals, including external...
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...create value and profit for the company. Maintaining a strong and compelling value proposition and long-term relationship with the company’s customers are vital for the company’s continued success and require constant monitoring of market, environmental, technological and competitive forces. Marketing is therefore integral to establishing a company’s strategic direction. This in turn makes marketing skills and perspective essential to the success of all business managers in any business. This course provides an in-depth exploration and practical application of basic marketing tools. These include product policy, pricing, promotion, distribution, sales management, and customer segmentation and retention. In most classes, we will analyze case studies that require us to identify marketing opportunities, refine value propositions, select customer segments and develop marketing programs for a variety of management situations. The course also includes a number of creative and analytic...
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...Subject: All Grade: Kindergarten 1 |Essential Understanding: |Title of Lesson: |Materials and Resources: | |Reading: |-Reading: Looking Closely At Nature |Reading: | |The students will understand the sound |-Math: Data Analysis/Graphing |Pearsonsuccess.net | |and shape of letter I. The student will |-Science: Capacity |Big book | |understand how to blend words based on |-Social Studies: Important People |Readers/Writers Notebooks | |letter sounds. The student will | |Sound spelling cards | |understand story elements. The student | ...
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...create value and profit for the company. Maintaining a strong and compelling value proposition and long-term relationship with the company’s customers are vital for the company’s continued success and require constant monitoring of market, environmental, technological and competitive forces. Marketing is therefore integral to establishing a company’s strategic direction. This in turn makes marketing skills and perspective essential to the success of all business managers in any business. This course provides an in-depth exploration and practical application of basic marketing tools. These include product policy, pricing, promotion, distribution, sales management, and customer segmentation and retention. In most classes, we will analyze case studies that require us to identify marketing opportunities, refine value propositions, select customer segments and develop marketing programs for a variety of management situations. The course also includes a number of creative and analytic assignments, including a semester-long, group...
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...Formal and Informal Assessments Diane Suzuki Western Governor’s University June 22, 2014 There are several ways to assess students in the c lassroom, these include Formal and Informal assessments. Every teacher needs methods to unders tand whether the students are grasping the concepts they are being taught. To determine this the teacher uses several types of assessments. In some cases, formal assessments are most beneficial in determining understanding and in other cases the teacher can use informal methods in understandi ng the students’ learning. Formal assessments are, according to the website education-portal.com, “are systematic, preplanned methods of testing students that are used to determine how well studen ts have learned the material that is being taught i n the classroom.” (Flanagan, D., Mascolo, J., Hardy-B raz, S., 12/2009, NP), They are standardized tests, essay exams, and final exams. While formal assessm ents show overall achievement in a subject or subjects, informal assessments are used to inform i nstruction, they help the teacher understand where changes in a lesson plan or instructional method mi ght need to occur to help student learning. (Weaver , Brenda, ND, NP) One form of Formal assessment are the standardized achievement tests given to students during the year. These assessments shows the stude nts’ developed skills or knowledge in particular subjects. They can be compared...
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...Big Bank’s president also threatens legal action. What potential causes of action could you foresee him bringing in court? Possible causes for Big Bank legal action: Misrepresentation “Data processing systems were the fastest around” “Systems Inc. never missed a deadline” When one party to a contract is not given full or accurate information by the other party about the contract subject matter, misrepresentation occurs. In the case of misrepresentation in the formation of a contract, the law allows a rescission of the contract. Rescission means the contract is set aside. Misrepresentation occurs when a seller makes inaccurate statements about its product or fails to disclose pertinent information about its product that would affect someone’s decision to enter into the contract. To be a basis for rescission, the misrepresentation must have been one regarding a material fact. A material fact is the type of information that would affect someone’s decision to enter into the contract. Although misrepresentation can result simply because of inaccurate information, fraud is the knowing and intentional disclosure of false information or the knowing failure to disclose relevant information. Fraud has the same elements of proof as misrepresentation, with the added element of knowledge that the information given is false. Unconscionable Section 2c of Big Bank, Systems Inc. “In the event the conversion process is stopped, cancelled, or suspended by Big Bank, Big Bank agrees...
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... 59, Iss. 4, p. 57-59 Supply and Demand Irena Asmundson. Finance & Development. Washington:Jun 2010. Vol. 47, Iss. 2, p. 48-49 Impact of Anti dumping measures on Indian Industry by Swati Jain, Sudhir K. Jain, Decision, Vol 35, No 1, January-June, 2008, p 3. The New Global Opportunity by Michael Elliot, Fortune, July 5, 2010, Vol 162, No 1, Relevant Websites Sr. No. Web adress (only if relevant to the courses) Salient Features 9 10 11 www.ecommerce-guide.com www.bloomberg.co.uk www.mit.edu Excellent source of reference for market research Excellent data on crrent market, economic, industrial and financial trends as a valuable sources of reference. Valuable source of reference for basicand advanced concepts of economics. Page 1 of 10 Approved for Autumn Session 2010-11 Detailed Plan For Lectures Week No. Lecture No. Topic Chapters/Sections of Textbook/other reference Homework to be Assigned to...
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...“You should have done better. Look at your friends. You should try harder.” Korean students hear these phrases from their parents daily. As a student in Korea, grades are the most important subject in life. Asian parents pursue perfection, so they are never pleased with their children’s results, and my parents were no exception. It was deeply rooted in me that I could succeed only when I studied well. Under these circumstances, I couldn’t dream of anything else but getting good grades. I was ten when my parents decided to go to China with my younger sister and me. My mom intuited a ‘big picture’: China would grow rapidly in the future, and so it is essential to learn Chinese. Yet, the process was too arduous. It was inevitable that I take classes until eleven at night and wake at five in the morning to do homework before I went to school. However there is a phrase that helped me through those days – “Minus plus minus is positive.” That is, after the hardships pile up and you overcome them, a good outcome will be waiting for you....
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...UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN FACULTAD DE CONTADURÍA PÚBLICA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROGRAM Finance @RISK, MexDer, Overdose Student name: Viridiana Gpe. Garcia Casas ID: 1550991 Group: 8Vi Cd. Universitaria, San Nicolas de los Garza Nuevo León, february 7th 2016 Homework #1 @RISK @RISK is a program that helps companies or the CEO of a company to understand the risk that the company has making a risk analysis using the Monte Carlo Simulation –The MCS help us to see all the possible outcomes of decisions and assess the impact of risk allowing for better decision making. It is a computerized mathematical technique using quantitive analysis, substituting a range of value and giving a possibility distribution-. The system was created in 1987 by corporate Palisade, all Palisade software is incorporated into Microsoft Excel, ensuring flexibility, ease of use and wide appeal in a wide range of industry sectors. (Palisade was founded in 1984 and its first product was PRISM, which gave PC users the ability to quantify risk by running Monte Carlo simulations. In 1987 he was succeeded byRISK for Lotus 1-2-3, the first auxiliary Monte Carlo simulation program for spreadsheet.) The @RISK system works with RISKOptimizer that helps companies to know the inputs to use, and also to know the risk associated with each strategy. Companies can search for strategies...
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...Marriage and Family Homework Assignment #1 Dashia Mack DeVry University Chapter 1 Question #3 What important changes in family patterns do you see today? Do you see positive changes, negative changes, or both? What do they mean for families, in your opinion? A: In today’s era family is become more of an anomaly. When I think back to the days of me being a child there a certain dynamics that I wish I could witness today in my children. For instance each day when I came from school it was mandated that I complete my homework before any other extracurricular activities. There were no exceptions and in doing so I was able to keep a consistent GPA, remained disciplined and understood the importance of balance. Unfortunately that’s not the case in many families as we now focus on athletics, talents, and interest as the primary focus. This shift has caused many of our youth to decline academically while hoping to be the next big sensation. The down turn is that when then doesn’t happen we’re then faced with adult un-educated parties that are struggling to support themselves and or their families because of the lack of knowledge. This clearly has a negative effect on society. Chapter 1 Question #4 What are some examples of a personal or family problem that is at least partly a result of problems in the society? A: A few problems I find to be result of problems in society include: State of the economy Single Parent Households Teenage...
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...BUS211f(2) ANALYZING BIG DATA I1 Spring 2014—MW 8:00–9:20 am Location: Sachar 116 (International Hall) Prof. Bharatendra Rai 313-282-8309 (mobile) brai@brandeis.edu Office: Sachar 1C Hours: MW, 9:30 – 10:15 and by appointment TA: TBD This is a two credit module that examines the opportunities and industry disruption in an era of massive, high velocity, unstructured data and new developments in data analytic. We treat some strategic, ethical, and technical dimensions of big data. The technical foci of the course include data structures, data warehousing, Structured Query Language (SQL), and high-impact visual displays. The principal objective of the course is to help students build understanding of data as an essential competitive resource, and acquire advanced computer skills through cases and hands-on applications. Assignments and classroom time will be devoted to both to analysis of current developments in analytics and to gaining experience with current tools. Davenport , Thomas H. and Harris, Jeanne G. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1422103326. Available for purchase at the bookstore. There is a required on-line course pack available for purchase at the Harvard Business Publishing website at this URL: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/23455671 This link is also available on LATTE . See last page of Syllabus for course pack contents. Other readings as posted on LATTE site. Learning Goals...
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...BUS211f(2) ANALYZING BIG DATA I1 Spring 2014—MW 8:00–9:20 am Location: Sachar 116 (International Hall) Prof. Bharatendra Rai 313-282-8309 (mobile) brai@brandeis.edu Office: Sachar 1C Hours: MW, 9:30 – 10:15 and by appointment TA: TBD This is a two credit module that examines the opportunities and industry disruption in an era of massive, high velocity, unstructured data and new developments in data analytic. We treat some strategic, ethical, and technical dimensions of big data. The technical foci of the course include data structures, data warehousing, Structured Query Language (SQL), and high-impact visual displays. The principal objective of the course is to help students build understanding of data as an essential competitive resource, and acquire advanced computer skills through cases and hands-on applications. Assignments and classroom time will be devoted to both to analysis of current developments in analytics and to gaining experience with current tools. Davenport , Thomas H. and Harris, Jeanne G. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1422103326. Available for purchase at the bookstore. There is a required on-line course pack available for purchase at the Harvard Business Publishing website at this URL: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/23455671 This link is also available on LATTE . See last page of Syllabus for course pack contents. Other readings as posted on LATTE site. Learning Goals...
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